Space News

A galactic collision 11 billion light-years away reveals how an actively feeding supermassive black hole disrupts star formation in a nearby galaxy.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight (May 9), carrying 26 Starlink satellites for the company's growing constellation.

SpaceX has completed its investigation into what went wrong during the eighth test flight of Starship rocket, which ended in an explosion over the Bahamas.

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope have developed a new way to observe the radio sky at multiple frequencies, and it means we will soon be able to capture color images of supermassive black holes.

Want to bring the cosmos into your home without breaking the bank? We've rounded up the best star projectors for under $100, from ambient to accurate.

On Episode 162 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the effort to make July 20 a national holiday called "Lunar Landing Day."

We recommend this unit as a great value-for-money non-scientific star projector. It boasts bright lights, a good loudspeaker and multiple music-streaming methods.

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant planet, the rare good news raised hopes humanity could soon learn we are not alone in the universe.

SpaceX said Friday it will make another launch attempt next week of the massive Starship rocket--key to CEO Elon Musk's long-term vision of colonizing Mars--after two consecutive in-flight explosions earlier this year.

SpaceX is poised to launch Flight 8 of its Starship megarocket on Thursday (March 6). Here's how to watch the action live.

The Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) is a critical software upgrade for the Global Positioning System (GPS) infrastructure and is now more than eight years behind schedule. The post Raytheon secures $380 ...